France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe
France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe
www.economist.com
France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe
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It's good they exposed this network of websites - now what is going to be done to prevent them using it as intended (casual users on phones promoting soundbites to friends are not going to be checking the list in such articles...)?
Having said that, the anglosphere experienced this already in 2016 with Brexit and Trump, and such networks also promoted anti-french coups in Africa, so to 'uncover' this now seems rather behind the wave. A specific issue among francophone elite was their concept that to make french great again they had to focus on resisting "anglo-saxons", so were naïvely tempted by russian narratives about a "multi-polar world". Russia wants to divide europeans, we need to cooperate better.-
It's been continuous since 2015. The Kremlin has been using anonymous social media accounts to divide democratic countries.
Disinformation during COVID, the 2020 US election, "trucker convoys," George Floyd protests, focus on transexuals as a wedge issue... they caught democracies flat footed.
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I’m all for an open and free Internet, but at what point do we cut off bad actors whose largest “contribution” is to spread and manipulate through disinformation? I can’t imagine there’s a wealth of culture and good will coming out of Russia via the Internet today, but it seems I hear about this week after week.
The problem is it doesn't all come out of russia. They have operations in other countries as well.
Yeah I get that, but it’s more about stepping on the water hose.
The vast majority of Russian citizens are good people, you can chat with many of them on the fediverse to find out for yourself if you want to, and if you think that cutting them off from all communication with the outside world would help in any way you're out of your mind.
I never said the Russian people are bad. I said it seems the majority of Russian influence on the greater Internet seems to be motivated by ill intent. I was merely asking at what point do you take action to prevent them from: hacking our infrastructure, spreading disinformation, sowing discord and tilting our elections? Seems like a high price to pay to share memes on Lemmy if it means the Russian government has free rein to do as they please.
Many also voted for Nadeschdin, yet he is not allowed to be president.